Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Reparations anyone?
A huge portion of the costs of these devices are paid for by a federal program called ERate. CPS is reimbursed up to 70 to 80% of the costs of these devices. The ERate program collects a tax from all of us on you cell, Cable TV, internet and telephone bills. That tax is funneled into a fund to be paid to school districts and libraries to make the internet more available and to provide technology in under privileged districts. If CPS buys $1M worth of chrome books or wireless access points for schools and students, Erate will reimburse CPS… Read more »
They’re looting the system. It’s no different than the south africans destroying costly electrical transformers for the minuscule amount of copper, or the looting of active railroad tracks for the scrap value of the iron, or the destruction of a foreclosure for the $100 in copper plumbing in the walls. That’s just what these people – CPS students and employees – want to do. ANd it’s everyone, whites, blacks, hispanics, asians. Everyone is in on the grift, that’s why they are at CPS in the first place.
Uh oh, somebody is confusing the CPS with education again…..
Seems like someone or some group in CPS is running a fencing operation. Wanna buy a watch?
Pops always maintained that you can buy some folks new books and send them to school, but they’ll only tear the pages out to use as toilet paper.
That’s so funny and absolutely right as I see it! You have to really want to pursue something go to get any lasting value from it, generally speaking. Otherwise you’re mostly just wasting your time as well the resources being spent to provide it whether they be your family’s, your own or governmental.
Costing Chicago Public Schools dearly,wrong wrong wrong, costing the taxpayers dearly!!